Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...system evolve to reject something--an organ transplant--that didn't become common until the 20th century? In the 1970s a couple of outsiders, working in relative isolation in Australia, hit on the answer. Australian Peter Doherty, who trained as a veterinary surgeon, and Dr. Rolf Zinkernagel, a Swiss specialist in tropical diseases, figured out that the rejection response was actually a by-product of the body's basic virus-defense system...
...definitely would not--De Valera forced Collins to join the peace negotiations knowing they were bound to produce an agreement that would be unacceptable to many of his countrymen, hoping thereby to destroy a dangerous rival. But, says Charles Townshend, a professor at Keele University in England and a specialist on the British rule of Ireland, Collins was anything but the "simple rebel." He was, in fact, this shadow government's minister of finance and perhaps the ablest politician in the cabinet. He was not gulled by his President into negotiating with the Brits or fooled by them into taking...
...Harvard she also married Anthony Willett, co-author of Shadow over Shangri-La, her recently published memoir, whom she had first met in Nepal while he was doing fieldwork as a specialist in international rural development. A graduate of Cambridge University, at her encouragement Willett enrolled in Harvard's M.P.A. program while she was attending the Kennedy School. In 1988-89, they lived together as resident tutors in Currier House...
...corners, Harvard's defense couldn't cope with all of the B.U. options. Barnard would hit the ball out, and Kim Koss would stop it for either Vera Schofield (a lift specialist) or Leonie Kortenhorst (a hard shooter). Meanwhile, Barnard drifted over to the post, either to receive a pass in the slot or go after a rebound...
Leading the Harvard side of the partnership is Professor of Medicine Anthony L. Komaroff, a specialist in the use of computers to present medical information. Komaroff said in a statement that the alliance is "a truly powerful combination for bringing important and reliable medical information to a wide audience...